This quick and easy Rudolph cake tutorial will take you out of a bind if you're short on time this holiday season. And the best part is, it can be used to decorate a cake covered in fondant, buttercream, chocolate ganache or modelling chocolate - the choice is yours! Rudolph Cake Tutorial: Materials an 8" inch cake covered in either brown fondant or buttercream or milk chocolate ganache or modelling chocolate 8 1/2 oz/240g brown fondant or modelling chocolate 2 oz/60g of white ... Read More...
Buttercream Cable Knit Cake Tutorial
This beautiful buttercream cable knit cake tutorial is from the newly published Reindeer Food by Cayla Gallagher, a follow-up to her previous books, Unicorn Food and Mermaid Food! We love this cake because Cayla's makes it surprisingly simple for such an ornate look. There are so many fabulous festive treats to choose from in her book for both the grown up palette to more playful treats to make with the kids coming up to the holidays. So check it out on Amazon to find new inspiration ... Read More...
Easy Gumpaste Lavender Tutorial
This gumpaste lavender tutorial shows you how to make this simple but very pretty adornment for your cakes and bakes. It can add a wonderful botanical feel to a sugar flower arrangement and is also very handy to have when fresh lavender is out of season to add as a finishing touch to your baking (as well as gumpaste pansies for which you’ll find a tutorial here: gumpaste pansy tutorial). It’s a simple process to create gumpaste lavender but can be time consuming if you need to make a lot ... Read More...
How To Speed Up Ganaching & Frosting
We all love getting to the decorating stage of cake making, but a sharp, crisp edge and smooth base is essential before we do so. One of the more frustrating aspects of cake making is coating and re-coating your cake with frosting or ganache until you get it just right. But now you can cut down on the time it takes to achieve the perfect ganache coating with the ProFroster. Designed to smooth both the top and bottom of your cake at the same time while also creating the perfect sharp edge, the ... Read More...
